I’m pretty excited that I will be a part of this activity the Goodreads group “My Vampire Book Obsession” is having.

E.C.’s first book “The Vampire Code” is due out June 1st so a few of us will be passing the book between some group members. We’ll receive the book by mail, have 5 days to read it, then send it on the next gal in line! After we’ve read it we have to leave an honest review on Goodreads, Amazon, Blogs etc.. And make a personal note of some sort in the book. Too much fun! Thanks for letting me participate E.C. and the Moderators of “My Vampire Book Obsession” ! =)

This is a HILARIOUS read! From the questionnaires the brothers filled out about themselves, the interviews that J.R. has with each of the brothers, and the message boards at the end of the book from the fans of the BDB series that the author found. Also has Z’s and Bella’s novella “Father Mine”.. And so much more.. Definitely a must read for any true BDB fan!!!

The story gives you a lot of insight as to what’s still going on in Z’s head.. After the birth of their daughter Nalla and Z seeing his Shellan survive thru it, he’s now struggling again with the filth of what the slave bands have left behind on his pure skin.. You see the struggle of what they go thru to finally get “there” as a family. Then Z resolves his issues and finds closure to his past, and they get the happily ever after they deserve.

I liked it very much, they’re my favorite couple of the BDB series so far!

Okay so this book took me 2 weeks to get thru, mostly because it’s spring and I’ve been busy out in the yard/ housework, etc…

That being said, I really didn’t get into this book until about page 190. Kind of like V’s book it was just a little show for me, but I think it has a lot to do with the author adding a few other subplots with what’s going on with the other people and not just keeping the main focus on Phury and Cormia. Sometimes all the lesser talk will just put me to /snoreville, but I know it’s all extremely relevant so I won’t complain! I did not like Phury just losing control of himself and getting disgraced from the brotherhood 😦 ..

Phury and Cormia’s cat and mouse game they played with each other kind of miffed me. I was starting to think that for a while Cormia and John Matthew were going to start to have a little relationship bloom between them. But then it became obvious that JM has some strong feelings for bad girl Xhex.. Whether or not they come to be or anything happens between them… It’ll be interesting!

Since their story takes up about 25% of the book , all I’m really going to say about Phury and Cormia’s relationship is …. FINALLY, Phury can stop being celibate! I damn near clapped for him when he and his mate found their connection and fell in love!! He deserved it after having gone thru what he had for years of self torture.

KeyElementsI liked from the book ~~

When the Omega went back in time to impregnate a vampire to bear his son Lash.. Who by the end of the book after his transformation from being just a vampire to bad ass Lesser Vampire.. He is now the ultimate lesser.. With some pretty cool parlor tricks..

I loved loved loooooooved that Tohr is back, his reunion with John Matthew brought tears to my eyes, I was so happy for the both of them!!! I want to see more of this fallen angel Lassiter guy =)

I was kind of bumming that Phury and Cormia were going to live off of the compound away from the brotherhood. But they need to take care of all the chosen who decided to come to the far side to live so that is understandable. I don’t know, guess since they’ve all stuck together thus far, I just wanted it to stay that way haha.. At the end of the book when Phury is sitting alone outside listening to the Opera, and all of the sudden Z appears singing to him, then the whole brotherhood appears and asks if he and Cormia will come meet Nalla, Bella and Z’s daughter.. That was just awesome!

Rehv and his Princess… Their little deal they have going on once a month is very very interesting…

Really enjoyed this story, it starts out with Alyssa who’s a very sought after graphics design artist that’s recently been hired on at one of Toronto’s largest firms as art director. She’s having a rough morning because she’s due to give a presentation and one of the owners of the company Mark Young will be there. Mark always has the last say as to what goes and what doesn’t. It also doesn’t help that ever since she got hired on two weeks ago she’s been having some intense dreams about a man she’s never met but does oh so wonderful things to her.

A little while later during the meeting she starts feeling a strange vibrating hum underneath her skin. With every second that passes they get more and more intense until the doors open and Mark Young comes bursting thru them. She then realized that he is the man she’s been dreaming about.. Her life changes drastically after that moment. I would of loved to have been a fly on the wall when he was standing in the doorway, eyes focused solely on her and he tells everyone except her to get out of the boardroom.. That to me was a pretty H-O-T moment. Hating the thought that now everyone in the office probably thinks that he is either dissatisfied with her work or they have something going on between them he assures her that he loves her work, and that there is something personal between them, she just doesn’t know it yet. Then after they talk for a bit he tells her if anything unusual happens to her, to give him a call.. I love how Ms. Lupton uses this mysterious/cryptic way to get the story started!

I Couldn’t put the book down for long that’s for sure, I had to know what was going to happen next with Mark and Alyssa and how their journey would end. Loveable characters, interesting plot, great ideas!

I also liked how the author threw in what movies they watched or music they were listening to, those are actually favorites of mine. Would love to have more, especially about the Brothers.

I absolutely found this book to be adorable. It was a quick, fun, and delightful read.

In the beginning of the book you have the Greek Gods Dionysus and Eryx bickering to each other that the god of wine “Dionysus” spends too much time gallivanting around with his booze and ladies, while the god of love “Eryx” wastes his time posing as mortals in the human realm pretending to be either a museum curator, professor, writer, or archaeologist. He just wants to ensure that the humans are doing the Greek Gods justice by making sure they have all their facts straight about their “myths” and handle their treasures properly. – Reading the first chapter alone I knew that I loved Ms. Leo’s humor and that this was going to be an entertaining read.

This time Eryx decides to take on the role of becoming the new director of The Toronto Museum. He thought that since it’s in the middle of renovations and that they have a nice sized inventory of Greek valuables, they could use his help. I fell in love with him very easily from the descriptive words the author uses to describe him (swooooon) and his charming personality/attitude. The things he says to Maia will make your heart flutter a lot!

Maia Douglas is a funny, witty, quirky, dorky, awkward and beautiful girl who is a curator at the Toronto Museum. Her father Dr. Jim Douglas is a famous archaeologist who’d founded most of the Greek collection housed in this museum so this is basically Maia’s second home. Word is getting around that the new Director Eric Lord will be arriving soon and that he is pretty ruthless when it comes to “cleaning house”. It’s no secret that she’s very fond of the Greek statue Eryx The God of Love in the Greek section of the museum, so when the God himself walks in the museum in his mortal guise as Eric Lord, I’d love to have seen the look on her face thinking the man of her dreams has come true!

I loved this character and immediately identified with her for her awkwardness and loved that she was passionate for things others would deem her for being a geek. More people need to be like this instead of thinking they need to hide what they love doing from others!!

There were some great lines/thoughts in this book that had me laughing out loud and rereading them after I’d stopped laughing just to start laughing again..

-“Last I heard he was farming cattle somewhere.” He rolled his eyes. “He’s always been curiously fond of cows.” – Talking about the Greek God Zeus

-Death by chicken wing seemed like such a strange way to go. – Maia

-Maia had seen a lot of flamboyant gay bars. This one was flaming hotter than a pink flamingo on fire.

Will definitely recommend this to a friend and continue on with the series, Thanks Rosanna Leo for a great read:)

I thought this was a deliciously fast fun read. This author definitely knows how to raise your eyebrows at some seriously HOT moments, and has some great one-liners to add to this mix..

Story starts off with a typical girl at a party her friend dragged her to. This party is hosted at Knight Sebring’s swanky apartment, only Knight didn’t invite all of these people to the party.. His brother did. Anya wants to leave and finds herself in a sexy-scary situation, her cell phone is a piece of garbage and won’t hold a charge for longer than an hour so she goes to find her coat to leave and taxi it home and ends up seeing the next best thing, which is a land line. Only when she starts to use it she realizes that she’s in a very pissed off Knight Sebring’s bedroom.

From the first moment they meet Knight is this demanding, controlling, sexual man that can’t get enough of Anya. The things that come out of this mans mouth make you want Anya to tell him to get lost, but at the same time want her to just stay with him.

I like how the author describes Anya as a normal not model perfect woman. The scene where She and Knight are in bed naked for the first time and she describes her Buddha belly to him I almost DIED LAUGHING!!! That was hysterical, and it gives us other Buddha belly owning (too many beers) women hope of finding a man like Knight =)

I was shocked near the end of the book to learn that Knight (given his past) has some extracurricular activities on the side with running his Club. Interesting how that turns out, I get it tho, he familiarizes himself with that nature since he grew up in that world so he would more or less think of himself as “Protecting” the women and trying to make their jobs easier on them, rather than them walking the streets unprotected. Like a high end Madame service only run by a handsome dominant.

The end of the story didn’t quite suit my expectations because I was hoping he would change his ways and break a few of his rules for Anya and marry her. I did like that he loved knowing he was going to be a father, and that it was a baby girl instead of what he wanted which was a boy haha:).

I always liked Butch “Hard-Ass” O’neal since the first book of the BDB Series. His smart ass attitude, gravely voice she makes him have, doesn’t take crap from anyone, love it! Thru the books she makes it seem like he could have been just as equally tortured as Zsadist was. Ward fills us in on why Butch’s family has always despised him and then wraps it up in the end.

I kind of want to write this up as a Butch and Vishous love story with Marissa who?!? These two have so much strange sexual tension between them it was comical and maybe somewhat disturbing. I told my friend who also read the book that it would have been hilarious if J.R. Ward went ahead and set up a little three way action between Butch, Vishous, and Marissa just to get it over with. =P

I am glad that the cop finally got his family he had been missing his whole life and that he’s officially a part of the Brotherhood. I liked how the author described the induction ceremony for the BDB.

Pretty neat to learn about when the Lessers go all poppin and bright flashes of light that they just go back to be a part of the Omega, and that they’re a part of his life source. So with Butch having this “Special Ability” he’ll able to put a stop to the Omega once and for all. Poor little Mr. X tho, all the guy wants is to end his miserable existence and be done with the Omega lol.. This guy’s going to need his own book when everything’s all said and done Haha!!

I think it would have been a little better if Marissa would own up to the fact that, “Yes, the person you are in love with hangs out and helps the brotherhood, yes he is going to fight and be put in danger from time to time, and yes he does love you. Put on your big girl panties and deal with it!! Kind of straddled on going over the top with her dramatic self, but she was apart of the Glymera so it’s in her breeding to be that way I guess.

I miss Tohr and can’t wait to hear more about what’s happened/happening to him..